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<p>mintty is copyright 2008-10 Andy Koppe.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It is licensed
under the terms of the <a href="http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/LICENSE">GNU
General Public License version 3</a> or later.&nbsp;<a href="http://code.google.com/p/mintty/downloads">Updates</a>
and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/mintty/source/checkout">source
code</a> are available from the mintty project page at <a href="http://mintty.googlecode.com">http://mintty.googlecode.com</a>.</p>
<p>Mintty is based on <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/">PuTTY</a>
version 0.60 by Simon Tatham and contributors, available from <a href="http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60">http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60</a>.
Big thanks to everyone involved. Thanks also to KDE's Oxygen team for
the program icon.</p>
<h4>Running mintty</h4>
<p>Windows needs to be able to find the MSYS DLL (<span style="font-style: italic;">msys-1.0.dll</span>)
when starting <span style="font-style: italic;">mintty.exe</span>.
There are several ways to ensure this:</p>
<ul>
<li>Start<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>it<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>from within an
existing MSYS session.</li>
<li>Place <span style="font-style: italic;">mintty.exe</span>
alongside <span style="font-style: italic;">msys-1.0.dll</span>
in the MSYS <span style="font-style: italic;">/bin</span>
directory and start it from there.</li>
<li>Add the MSYS&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">/bin</span>
directory (e.g. <span style="font-style: italic;">C:\MSYS\bin</span>)
to the Windows <span style="font-style: italic;">PATH</span>
variable, which can be found under 'Environment Variables' on the
'Advanced' tab of the System Properties.</li>
<li>Create a shortcut to <span style="font-style: italic;">mintty.exe</span>
with the working directory set to the MSYS <span style="font-style: italic;">/bin</span> directory.</li>
</ul>
<p>Invoke mintty as follows to obtain a login shell that sources all the usual startup scripts: <span style="font-style: italic;">mintty /bin/bash -l</span></p>
<p>Invoking <span style="font-style: italic;">mintty</span> with <span style="font-style: italic;">--version</span>
or <span style="font-style: italic;">--help</span>
will print version or usage information. The mintty manual in PDF format can be found on the project page at <a href="http://mintty.googlecode.com">http://mintty.googlecode.com</a>.</p> 
<p>Please report bugs or suggest enhancements via the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues">issue tracker</a>. Vote for any issues you'd particularly like to see addressed by starring them. The discussion group for all things mintty is <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss">mintty-discuss</a>.</p>

Enjoy!<br>
Andy
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